Excerpted is Helen Focht's account of a trial integration of University of Iowa's Currier Hall in the summer of 1954 and her recollections of Betty (Arnett) Ward, the African American student involved in the integration.
Correspondence between LeMars Elementary Schools Principal Orval Nielsen and University of Iowa President Virgil Hancher regarding the election of an African American homecoming queen.
![Oral history interview with Helen Focht [excerpt]](https://www.iowaheritage.org/files/thumbnails/74b48f0e9aa3220b761ee90ea6fc13b6.jpg "Oral history interview with Helen Focht [excerpt]")
